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A report on the first anniversary of the Syrian uprising

Weeks of sporadic protests seeking government reform burst into
full-fledged unrest on March 15, 2011, when thousands of demonstrators gathered
in four Syrian cities. Within days, authorities had cut off news media access
to Daraa, a center of the unrest, beginning a sustained effort to shut down international
news coverage of the uprising and the government's increasingly violent
crackdown. As the civilian death toll has reached well into the thousands,
according to U.N. figures, the last four months have taken a particularly dark
turn for the press. Eight
local and international journalists have been killed on duty since November, at
least five in circumstances that raise questions about government culpability. Yet
one year after the Syrian uprising began, killing the messenger has not
silenced the message.